Aug 4.2016 |  678

chalkunderstars:

okay so there’s already Bismuth Discourse™ so I’m gonna put in my two cents

1. we didn’t have enough time. like. we really didn’t. and it’s probably a budget thing, especially with hiring a voice actress who’s really high profile and probably expensive. this isn’t a movie, they probably wouldn’t have been able to afford Uzo Aduba for more than the half hour special episode. (I still hate how they promo’d about her being The New Team Member, but that’s a Cartoon Network problem and doesn’t really involve the Crewniverse) so like, we gotta keep that info on the sidelines when meta-ing, yknow?

2. this absolutely could have been solved with time and more talking. bismuth didn’t have all the post-active war information. she’s coming at this from an active war standpoint. that makes a Huge difference.

3. seriously bismuth doesn’t have the context of lapis, peridot, or the shattered gem experiments. those are all huge factors into Steven’s ideals, on top of the fact that he’s a c h i l d.

4. bismuth is in the right in active wartime conditions, and tbh I. generally agree with her ideals and tactics. but she still doesn’t have all the information, and in the real world we don’t have to worry about the torture of shattered corpse psyches. seriously, we don’t even know if bismuth knows how many gems were corrupted btw.

5. have I mentioned that Steven is a child yet? have I mentioned this is a show for children? Murder Is Bad is. a pretty basic kids show moral, and it’s shown that rose was in the wrong in the past and bismuth is in the wrong in the present (where we have present knowledge and circumstances. seriously context is such a huge thing with this episode)

6. bismuth wasn’t a villain. that’s. literally now how she was framed from a narrative standpoint. she has differing ideology from a completely different contextual area and kids will probably pick up on that. if they can get Aduba in again (which isn’t that likely but we can hope) then we’ll probably see everything more fleshed out.

7. I can’t mention this enough - and this is a general qualm with the fandom - but this is a kids show. this wasn’t made for us, we’re just part of the audience. if we’re gonna Discourse™ can we at least look at it through that lens instead of as if this were an Adult Show with Adult Morals.

but this is just my onion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯










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